TMO Forum RSS Feeds

The Mac Observer Forums RSS Feeds

The Mac Observer is proud to bring you five new customizable RSS feeds to syndicate our forums. Now you can get the latest discussions delivered directly to your favorite RSS reader.

• AppleTalk
  This feed brings you the latest discussions regarding everything about Apple. Topics come from the following forums: 1 Infinite Loop - The Mac Room, Using Mac OS X, Apple Finance Board, Mac Gaming, Macs In Education, Buy, Sell, or Trade Mac Stuff, and Announcements, Suggestions, & Comments
  Feed URL: http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/appletalk.php
• The Mac Support Boards
  The feed for Macintosh troubleshooting. Topics come from the following forums: Mac OS X Help, Classic Mac Help, and Hardware Help
  Feed URL: http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/macsupport.php
• TMO Labs
  The feed for those who innovate using the Mac. Topics come from the following forums: the GarageBand Garage, Hardcore X!, Digital Imaging, HTML & Web Development, Coder's Corner, and Team Mac Observer SETI@home
  Feed URL: http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/tmolabs.php
• The Mac Observer Café
  This feed brings you discussions not relating to computers. Topics come from the following forums: The TMO Lounge, The Couch - TV, Movies, & Music, The Chain Gang, The Rant Room, and World News/Politics/Philosophy
  Feed URL: http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/thecafe.php
• TMO Forums Overview
  The all encompasing TMO Forums RSS feed brining you topics from every discussion at The Mac Observer.
  Feed URL: http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/forums.php

By default, each feed is set up to fetch the latest 10 posts. This can be customized by adding a query after the url. You can fetch up to 50 posts by adding "num=" follwed by a number to the url query. What is a query string?

Another change you can make is whether the feed should fetch new replies as well as new topics. With this option turned on, by adding "replies=true" to the url query, you can be notified when any new post appears in the forums, not simply when someone creates a new thread.

A special feature of the Forums Overview feed is you can limit which forum topics are selected from. You can have it display topics from a specific forum (if you know the id of the forum) by adding "f=" followed by the forum id number to the url query. For your reference, the forum ids are provided:

1 - 1 Infinite Loop - The Mac Room
3 - Using Mac OS X
7 - Apple Finance Board
16 - Mac Gaming
29 - An Apple A Day: Macs In Education
14 - Buy, Sell, or Trade Mac Stuff & Mac Job Postings
9 - Announcements, Suggestions, & Comments
5 - Mac OS X Help
6 - Classic Mac Help
17 - Hardware Help
37 - The GarageBand Garage
22 - Hardcore X!, *nix, Shells, Etc.
27 - Digital Imaging, Graphics, & iPhoto Help
26 - HTML & Web Development
28 - Coder's Corner
23 - Team Mac Observer SETI@home
18 - The TMO Lounge
35 - The Couch - TV, Movies, & Music
25 - The Chain Gang
19 - The Rant Room
24 - World News/Politics/Philosophy
20 - Siberia

Examples of Customization:

• http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/appletalk.php?num=15
  Fetches the latest 15 topics from the AppleTalk forums.
• http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/macsupport.php?num=5&replies=true
  Fetches the last 5 posts (including replies to topics) from the Mac Support forums.
• http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/forums.php?f=1
  Fetches the latest 10 topics from "1 Infinite Loop - The Mac Room" forum
• http://www.macobserver.com/rss/forums/forums.php?f=18&num=15&replies=true
  Fetches the last 15 posts (including replies) from "The TMO Lounge" forum